Fred Rogers Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old fred rogers quotes, fred rogers sayings, and fred rogers proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.

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What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes? Lots of things, and it may take months or years for wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.

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What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

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If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

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Hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

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Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

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I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

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How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

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Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

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Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

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Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

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In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

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Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

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This evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of.

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If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

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When we talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.

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Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

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It's really easy to fall into the trap of bellieving what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

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Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

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What is important to consider, I think, is the difference between what is imaginary and what is real--and the fears are real.

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Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.

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Children who grow up with plenty can learn to give, just as children who grow up receiving love can learn to express it.

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To grow up to be healthy, very young children do not need to know how to read, but they need to know how to play.

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A sense of individual identity is one of the greatest gifts that parents can give a child. If that gift is not given, children will have to fight for their identities instead. When twins have to fight each other for it, they could, indeed, grow up to be 'identical strangers.'

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Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.

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I believe that the basis of any health education lies in a person's caring enough about himself that he'll want to take care of himself.

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Caring is not what a powerful person gives to a weaker one. Caring is a matter of being there...lamenting right along with the one who laments.

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To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now--and to go on caring even through times that may bring us pain.

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For children, play is a serious learning.

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A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we're loved.

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Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.